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[Valeri Galtsev]

On 7/26/20 10:56 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
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> On 7/26/20 10:52 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:39:16 -0500
>> Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote:
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>>> My understanding of Linux OOM killer lies along same lines though my
>>> understanding is much more simplified: kill minimal number of processes
>>> to recover maximum amount of resources.
>>
>>     Not always the right thing to do though.
>>
>>> Another speculative way to say
>>> it would be: process owning maximum amount of RAM that keeps allocating
>>> more RAM is first candidate.
>>
>>     What a pity if that is the heavy weight analytic program that has a
>> run time of several hours/days and is the only thing that matters running
>> on the system.
>>
> 
> And yes, I agreed with your sentiments (or judgement): killing a process 
> is a bad thing always. Agreed before writing any of my comments.
> 

Even though that heavy weight program that runs for multiple days must 
have been saving checkpoints which you can restart it from, so you only 
loose time from last checkpoint, I still agree with you: killing 
anything is a bad thing to do.

Valeri

> Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev
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